Wine Society Christmas Food
The Wine Society shop in Stevenage is seasonally decorated for Christmas drinks and foods which were displayed to members and guests at a tasting on 26 January 2015.
Wines - Prosecco At Moderate Price and more
I tasted several red and white wines, making notes on the sheet provided. I liked the Prosecco, which we started with, the wine society's own label, which is moderately priced. The last three wines were sweeter or dessert wines. I must admit I am not really a fan of Madeira. But that's the whole point of the tasting, to find out what you like, so that you buy what you enjoy and don't waste money on what you won't want.
The Prosecco didn't have a lot of aroma, but it was good enough.
Prosecco Brut DOC. 11.5% so not overpoweringly alcoholic. £7.75 a bottle. £93.00 for a dozen. ref IT20511.
The Prosecco can be ordered in a gift pack with mixers of fruit juice including rhubarb, which you don't often see in supermarkets
Wine Society Festive Foods
Also to sample were the pates on crackers, wild boar pate, salmon pate. This year I didn't taste the rabbit.
I prefer their cheeses.
My top tastes were the Wine Society chocolates, really yummy. I mean the selection box. Very more-ish.
Wine Tasting Events
The Enoteca
During a tasting event you are already getting quite enough wine. So the Enoteca machines dispensing wine to taste by the mini-glass are turned off. I imagine the staff are too busy serving the wines of the event to be be selling cards and manning machines, refilling the bottles if one runs out.
But if you go on a day when no tastings are arranged, you can have your own tasting from the machines. One machine has some cheaper free wines to taste. The other machine takes a money card which you fill with however much you want to spend.
The Spiral Cellar
Events Calendar
The events calendar tells you about the wine tastings and dinners at Stevenage.
Membership
Membership brings you a newsletter, emails, the card with your membership number which you need to quote to make purchases, book an event, or going a guest, plus a voucher for your first purchase of wine from the society.
Wine Society, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 2BT
Enquiries tel 01438 741177
Orders 01438 740222
website thewinesociety.com
member services@thewinesociety.com
Angela Lansbury,
Wine society shop in Stevenage. Photo by Angela Lansbury.
The Wine Society shop in Stevenage is seasonally decorated for Christmas drinks and foods which were displayed to members and guests at a tasting on 26 January 2015.
Wines - Prosecco At Moderate Price and more
I tasted several red and white wines, making notes on the sheet provided. I liked the Prosecco, which we started with, the wine society's own label, which is moderately priced. The last three wines were sweeter or dessert wines. I must admit I am not really a fan of Madeira. But that's the whole point of the tasting, to find out what you like, so that you buy what you enjoy and don't waste money on what you won't want.
The Prosecco didn't have a lot of aroma, but it was good enough.
Prosecco Brut DOC. 11.5% so not overpoweringly alcoholic. £7.75 a bottle. £93.00 for a dozen. ref IT20511.
The Prosecco can be ordered in a gift pack with mixers of fruit juice including rhubarb, which you don't often see in supermarkets
Wine Society Festive Foods
Also to sample were the pates on crackers, wild boar pate, salmon pate. This year I didn't taste the rabbit.
I prefer their cheeses.
My top tastes were the Wine Society chocolates, really yummy. I mean the selection box. Very more-ish.
Wine Tasting Events
The Enoteca
During a tasting event you are already getting quite enough wine. So the Enoteca machines dispensing wine to taste by the mini-glass are turned off. I imagine the staff are too busy serving the wines of the event to be be selling cards and manning machines, refilling the bottles if one runs out.
But if you go on a day when no tastings are arranged, you can have your own tasting from the machines. One machine has some cheaper free wines to taste. The other machine takes a money card which you fill with however much you want to spend.
The Spiral Cellar
Another visual attraction, for the man who has everything, is the spiral cellar. It's always a good talking point. David, who lives in nearby Stevenage, is standing looking at it. He comments that people tend to walk around it rather than across it. However, was we watch, three people all walk across it. He challenges me to guess how much the cellar costs. (It's there installed by the manufacturers so that you can buy one, if you want it and can afford it. Dave says the bottles are empty dummies. I guess, "£5,000?" he shakes his head.
I try again, "£50,000?"
He smiles. Nearer!
I ask, "Are you from the company which sells them?"
No. He is retired and lives in nearby Stevenage.
Events Calendar
The events calendar tells you about the wine tastings and dinners at Stevenage.
Membership
Membership brings you a newsletter, emails, the card with your membership number which you need to quote to make purchases, book an event, or going a guest, plus a voucher for your first purchase of wine from the society.
Wine Society, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 2BT
Enquiries tel 01438 741177
Orders 01438 740222
website thewinesociety.com
member services@thewinesociety.com
Angela Lansbury,
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